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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in technology-enhanced learning are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning institutions have to struggle with today because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions be assured that the quality control for these MOOCs is tolerable? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Reddit to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators handle issues like inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these open education experiments. Trainers want to perceive how MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this developing need for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education topics. This new book also articulates the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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